Bab Mellah: The Jewish Quarter

The Mellah: the historical Jewish quarter

Mellah is the Jewish quarter in Morocco. The first official Mellah in Morocco was established in Fez in 1438. The Mellah is like a city within a city. This video takes one back to the history, via postcards, when the Mellah was inhabited by Jews and how it is different today.

Tour of the Ourzazate Mellah (Jewish Quarter)

Presented by Diarna (diarna.org): Raphael Elmaleh, Morocco's only Jewish tour guide, leads a tour of the old mellah (Jewish quarter) of Ourzazate, Morocco. He recounts his first visit to the city when he discovered the last Jew living in the mellah. Elmaleh also explains the architecture of the quarter and reveals what has become of the local synagogue.

Mellah - Rabat, Morocco

Mellah - Rabat, Morocco

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David's Been Here is in Rabat, Morocco, touring all the top sites and interesting attractions in the city. In this short video, David and crew head to the Mellah, or Jewish Quarters of town. Built by the Arabs in the 17th century, this corner of the city is an interesting and unique part of Rabat filled with outdoor vendors, friendly locals and colorful, tight streets. Join David as he walks through the streets, trying some local fruit and getting acquainted with his new friend.

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Fès 2015 balade au Mellah et synagogue Aben Danan

Fès Balade au Mellah synagogue Aben Danan

Marrakesh Jewish Quarter The Melah

A description of the Jewish Quarter in Marrakesh תאור קצר של שכונת היהודים בעיר מרקש שבמרוקו

Tomb of Shmuel AbuHatzeira in Erfoud, Morocco

Presented by Diarna (diarna.org): Rabbi Shmuel AbuHatzeira is the grandson of the legendary
Moroccan rabbi known as the Abir Yaakov and the first-cousin of the Moroccan-Israeli iconic rabbi the Baba Sali. His tomb in the Erfoud cemetery was once exposed to the elements, covered only by a small roof with no walls. In recent years, a formal complex has been built around his grave, including a large function hall where guests can celebrate his annual hiloula (pilgrimage).

Shrine: The cemetery contains several hundred other graves, most arrayed in a series of rows. Some of the graves have stones placed on top of them, the result of a traditional Jewish custom where relatives place a few pebbles atop grave stones as a kind of memorial.

A Muslim guardian
lives on the premises with his family, including a young daughter who often wanders among the tombs. He is familiar with the history of the AbuHatzeira clan and often greets visitors from around the world who come on pilgrimage to the shrine.

Community: In 1954, about one-third of the inhabitants of the new section of Erfoud were Jews. On Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, all shops were closed -- including those owned by non-Jews -- because there was no one to trade with. Yaakov Benhamou was then the head of the local community, and Mukhluf Krispin was the young head of the local Talmud Torah Jewish day school.

The Baba Sali had a grand, new synagogue in town that was known as The Rav's Synagogue. There were Jewish quarters, or mellahs, in many of the surrounding villages,
including Ksar Zrigat and Ma'adid to the north; Tijimi and Joarf to the west; and Sifa and El-Glagla to the south (though in 1954 only the last three villages still had Jewish inhabitants).

FÈS EL DJID - Bab Semmarine et Le mellah ( l'ancien Quartier Juif )

Bab Semmarine, cette haute porte reconstruite en 1924, constitue l’authentique entrée du quartier de Fès El-Jdid (la ville nouvelle de Fès ) en passant cette porte, on pénètre dans une rue commerçante très animée. Le mellah, désigne un lieu où l'on conserve des produits avec le sel, mais dans chaque ville il est utilisé pour désigner le quartier juif.
Les maisons comportent systématiquement un commerce au rez de chaussé et des grands balcons aux étages supérieurs, typiques des constructions juives ouvertes vers l'extérieur .

Maroc BAB BOU JELOUD - فاس‎ -Fès

Maroc BAB BOU JELOUD - فاس‎ - Fès
LA PORTA CON LE MAIOLICHE AZZURRE DALLA CITTA' NUOVA INTRODUCE NELLA CITTA' VECCHIA, NELLA MEDINA.
LE MAIOLICHE CHE RIVESTONO IL LATO DELLA PORTA (Fes el-Bali) CHE DALLA MEDINA INTRODUCE NELLA CITTA' NUOVA SONO DI COLORE VERDE, SIMBOLO DELLA VITALITA' CHE SI AGITA NEL MERCATO MELLAH.

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Mellah - Fez

Walking in the Jewish quarter.

Ighil n'Ogho - Abandoned Jewish Cemetery in Morocco

Presented by Diarna (diarna.org): A silent walk through the abandoned Jewish cemetery of Ighil n'Ogho reveals human bones, shattered graves, and one remarkably intact headstone in Hebrew. The village is located in the Talouine region of southern Morocco and once had a large Jewish population. Many of the local Jews were merchants and itinerant peddlers - often of saffron, a regional specialty.

This tour begins at the oldest end of the cemetery, where what seems to have once been a small ritual room now shows evidence of local Amazigh (Berber) women ablutions; the women wash themselves inside in the superstitious hope of getting pregnant. Note the clothing, water-jugs, and even plastic soap bottles scattered throughout the cemetery.

Moving beyond this ritual room, what appear to be random rocks are actually grouped into clumps marking centuries-old graves. Smaller clumps may indicate the graves of children. Newer and better preserved graves -- made of concrete -- become visible as the tour heads toward the main road leading into the village.

Wait for the treat at the end of the video.

Slate Saba, a Synagogue in Fez

Archival footage from a Purim service in the late-1950s and contemporary footage from 2007, shed a rare light on this 400-year-old synagogue in the mellah of Fez, which is now a private home.

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The Royal Palace, the Jewish Quarter (Mellah)and the Handicrafts Centre.

Moroccan souk in Jewish Quarter

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Ighil N'Ogho Mellah

Presented by Diarna (diarna.org): Raphy Elmaleh, Morocco's only Jewish tour guide (rafitours.com), takes viewers on a special tour through the mellah (Jewish quarter) of the village of Ighil N'Ogho, in the southern Moroccan region of Tallouine. Elmaleh shows the former home of the village's rabbi, who in an usual custom would keep the Torah scroll in his home rather than in the synagogue.

He introduces Zubeida, the haratine woman who today guards the town's synagogue, which Elmaleh helped restore. He also chats with Zubeida's brother, who worked on the restoration, and with an old man in the village who used to be the guardian of the mellah, making sure the Jewish quarter's gate was locked at night. The man identifies individuals in old photographs from the village (seen at the beginning of the video) and points out the homes and stores of Jews who left 50 years ago.

At the center of the drama in the village -- once home to over 300 Jews -- is the geniza (burial ground for old religious texts) located beneath the synagogue. Muslim inhabitants of village recall that when the Jews left 50 years ago, they buried their books there and warned that no one should go inside; if anyone did they would be bitten by a scorpion and die. At the end of the video, Elmaleh reveals what happened the day he decided to risk his life to open the geniza. The result is a charming vignette that reflects the intricacies of Muslim-Jewish interaction in rural Morocco.

Exploring Jewish Morocco: Jewish History Tours

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Interview with JN1 -- July 2013
By Michelle Medina

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